Mainliner "Mellow Out" CD (1996) High Rise/Acid Mothers Temple/Musica Transonic

Description: Here we have a stunning item for those with a taste for that special school of musical mayhem one only seems to find in Japan: MAINLINER and their very out of print Mellow Out CD, released in 1996 on the Charnel House label. This was their debut album for this group, whom the brief notes on the back describe as "a new heavy psychedelic band created by Nanjo of High Rise. High Rise is still active, but MAINLINER was created to explore new possibilites. MAINLINER is trying to explore revolution and exploration by different rhythms not possible with High Rise, making them completely new type of heavy psychedelic group." Heavy is right – Mellow Out is a flat-out, balls-to-the-wall, needle-in-the-red raging BEAST of a disc, a virulent strain of guitar distortion and amp overload capable of blowing your mind and speakers simultaneously… and proud winner of the Baron Elmo award for Most Inaccurately Titled Album Ever. Yet no matter how noisy things get, Mainliner keeps the music firmly within the bounds of rock & roll. For the three lengthy pieces that comprise Mellow Out, Nanjo Asahito's bass and vocals are accompanied by a dream team of two members of Acid Mothers Temple: Makoto Kawabata on "motor psycho guitar" and drummer Hajime Koisumi on the skins. To devotees of the Japanese underground scene, THIS what we call a supergroup. And if you are one of those devotees... well, this CD is a notch you'll definitely want to add to your gun. Unfortunately, like so many Charnel House titles, Mellow Out was only pressed once and has been unavailable ever since. Don't miss your chance to own this skull-walloping classic! The CD is near mint. Track listing Cockamamie Black Sky M Mellow Out is an ironic title if ever there was one: as far as mind- and speaker-blowing experiences go, Mainliner's 1996 debut is difficult to top. Nobody could accuse Asahito Nanjo of pussyfooting around with his noise-mongering outfit High Rise, but he ups the ante on this ultra-heavy, brain-atomizing record, ably assisted by Acid Mothers Temple's Makoto Kawabata and Hajime Koizumi. For the duration of Mellow Out all the needles are stuck firmly in the red, its 35 minutes terminally fuzzed-out and distorted. This definitely isn't a record you'd use to demonstrate the quality of your stereo system. Indeed, the band's apparent scorn for production values makes the inclusion of a production credit appear somewhat comic. Although Nanjo (bass) and Koizumi (drums) lay down a crushing, seemingly monolithic bottom end, amid the weighty layers of that foundation the pair also sustain patterns of rhythmic complexity – without descending into jazz noodling. Meanwhile, Kawabata's guitar veers between earth moving riffage and shrieking, eviscerating extended solos. Woody Guthrie had "This Machine Kills Fascists" emblazoned on his instrument, but Kawabata's axe is utterly undiscriminating: nobody is spared its wrath. Having kicked out the jams with the frantic sub-two-minute opener "Cockamamie," the record gives itself over to a pair of quarter-hour-plus behemoths, "Black Sky" and "M" (what its title lacks in letters, the track makes up for in noise). These numbers churn and grind, alternating between pulverizing riffs and scything white-knuckle freak-out, as Nanjo's curiously disembodied vocals float over the fray in a cloud of reverb. Mellow Out suggests previous power trios like Cream, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Guru Guru and Blue Cheer, all locked in a room together and jamming to the death. This is molten acid rock, psychedelic in that it rearranges the senses – not with fey whimsy but with sheer brute force. ~ Wilson Neate Reaches new levels of sonic disruption and black-hole sound, almost like an amphetamine-driven Black Sabbath, complete with over-the-top distortion and psycho guitar bursts. Can't recommend this enough... ~ Melody Maker 4 out of 5 stars - Kawabata wrenches some of the most ass-ripping guitar since the birth of electricity, with enough oversaturation to induce heart attacks in most studio employees... ~ Alternative Press

Price: 15 USD

Location: Brentwood, California

End Time: 2024-10-26T02:12:29.000Z

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